Team:British Columbia/humanpractices

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In the human practices component of our project, we intend to learn about the professional, industrial, and public’s perception of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and aim to construct a marketing strategy for a Genetically Modified Yogurt. This particular approach was chosen for our project due to the consumer-based nature of our final product. First, to obtain a general knowledge about the common perspectives with regards to GMOs, we will survey various industry and academic professionals and citizens in public places. To direct the focus of our public survey, we will first interview various professionals in the dairy industry to understand the major struggles and concerns when dealing with GMOs in the industry. We will then design a survey according to the results obtained from the interviews to address the concerns that have been raised. The professionals targeted by our survey will include professors with backgrounds in Philosophy, Bioethics, Biology, Microbiology, Genetics, Engineering, Land and Food Systems, and several other fields that are not directly involved with the issue of genetic modification. We will also conduct surveys in public to better our understanding about the major concerns that citizens have with regards to consuming Genetically Modified foods, and in our case, yogurt.  
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For the human practices component of our project, we intend to gain more knowledge about the professional, industrial, and public’s perception of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and aim to construct a marketing strategy for a Genetically Modified Yogurt. This particular approach was chosen for our project due to the consumer-based nature of our final product. We will first obtain general knowledge about the common perspectives toward GMOs through interviewing various industry and academic professionals in the dairy industry and associated academic fields to understand the major struggles and concerns when dealing with GMOs in the dairy industry. The industry and academic professionals we targeted include professors with backgrounds in Philosophy, Bioethics, Biology, Microbiology, Genetics, Engineering, Land and Food Systems, and several other fields that are not directly involved with the issue of genetic modification. We will then design a public survey according to the feedback we obtained from the interviews to gather the opinions of the general public. The public survey will better our understanding about the major concerns that citizens have with regards to consuming Genetically Modified foods, and in our case, yogurt. Through the public survey, we will obtain the data needed to develop a marketing strategy outline for our GM yogurt.  
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We will then research human practices’ concerns surrounding CRISPR bacterial immunity. Due to recent discoveries with regards to the CRISPR system and scientific advances made in this field, we concluded that creating a Spacer Repository would be beneficial in assessing the potentially unintended implications of these sequences. We developed a submission sample and included the information that would be necessary in the repository.
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At the same time, we will research human practices’ concerns surrounding CRISPR bacterial immunity. Due to recent discoveries with regards to the CRISPR system and scientific advances made in this field, we concluded that creating a Spacer Repository would be beneficial in assessing the potentially unintended implications of these sequences. We developed a submission sample below and included the information that would be necessary in the repository.

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Human Practices

For the human practices component of our project, we intend to gain more knowledge about the professional, industrial, and public’s perception of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and aim to construct a marketing strategy for a Genetically Modified Yogurt. This particular approach was chosen for our project due to the consumer-based nature of our final product. We will first obtain general knowledge about the common perspectives toward GMOs through interviewing various industry and academic professionals in the dairy industry and associated academic fields to understand the major struggles and concerns when dealing with GMOs in the dairy industry. The industry and academic professionals we targeted include professors with backgrounds in Philosophy, Bioethics, Biology, Microbiology, Genetics, Engineering, Land and Food Systems, and several other fields that are not directly involved with the issue of genetic modification. We will then design a public survey according to the feedback we obtained from the interviews to gather the opinions of the general public. The public survey will better our understanding about the major concerns that citizens have with regards to consuming Genetically Modified foods, and in our case, yogurt. Through the public survey, we will obtain the data needed to develop a marketing strategy outline for our GM yogurt.

At the same time, we will research human practices’ concerns surrounding CRISPR bacterial immunity. Due to recent discoveries with regards to the CRISPR system and scientific advances made in this field, we concluded that creating a Spacer Repository would be beneficial in assessing the potentially unintended implications of these sequences. We developed a submission sample below and included the information that would be necessary in the repository.

Genetically Modified Yogurt

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